From our Rector :
Ro and I would like to thank everyone for the wonderful welcome that we have received since we have arrived here just a couple of weeks ago. If you managed to make it to the Licensing service last Friday (7 May) you would have seen part of that wonderful welcome.
Although we still have many boxes to unpack, shelves to put up, pictures to hang and furniture to rearrange your wonderful welcome has made us feel very much at home. People have been calling around at the Rectory to say hullo, to ask if we need any help and to leave cakes and other delicious gifts. I have been trying to find out which meeting I should be at, find out who I should be visiting and taking a few services along the way and I have been here officially for six days already.
This evening we are holding our Ascension day service at Thelveton and we will be remembering the day that Jesus returned to his Father leaving his followers the task of telling the world about him, of the good news that our God is a God who loves us, who wants to draw us closer to him. Jesus also promised that his disciples would receive a ‘comforter’, someone who would live in us who was sent both by the Father and by Jesus. Jesus called that person the Holy Spirit.
So the good news that we remember on Ascension day is not only that Jesus returned to his Father but that we receive the Holy Spirit.
God Bless,
James Roskelly